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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I don't think this girl should be the poster girl for much of anything.  I feel bad for the officers here --- I'm not sure what else they could have done (I'm open to suggestions).  They asked her repeatedly to put it away; she refused; asked for her ID; she refused; asked her to sit down; she refused.  Are they just supposed to walk away and not enforce the rules?  Is that fair?  From what I saw, I don't think they kicked her -- I think they used the approved "take down" measure, which is to put some pressure against the back of the knee so that the person has to get down.  Had she just put the damn chips in her backpack, none of that would have happened.

FWIW, I've been riding metro daily for about 20 years.  It is very, very rare that I see people eating on metro.  (Maybe a couple times a year.)  Most of the time that I see it, it is a tourist snacking on something, and I usually tell them that it is not permitted and can result in large fines if they are seen by a transit officer.  The other times that I see it, it is usually a younger person eating something really messy and smelly like McDonalds or takeout food and you can tell that they absolutely know they are violating the rule and don't care.

Rats are a huge problem in this city, and I'd prefer not to have even more of them in the metro system.  Plus there's nothing grosser than sitting down in a metro seat where someone spilled ketchup (other than the rats -- they are grosser).  The no-eating rule is a smart rule.  People should follow it.[/quote]

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